T-Mobile Spells Out CFO Exit Plan

on Friday filed an amended employment agreement for its finance chief who plays out a plan for leaving the company as a regulatory review of a proposed merger with rival

Sprint Corp.

CFO Braxton Carter has been a key figure in the mobile carrier's pending deal to buy Sprint. A spokeswoman for T-Mobile declined to comment on whether a successor had been chosen.

Mr. Carter's last day at T-Mobile will be decided by the status of the merger, the company said in a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. Carter is scheduled to leave at one of three fixed dates, depending on which arrives first: the end of 201

9; 20 days after the first quarterly filing of the merged company; The deal is off 20 days after and announcement

Analysts speculated about the departure of Mr. Carter in September, when T-Mobile said Sunit Patel would join the company to lead its expected integration with Sprint. Mr. Patel had been chief financial officer at CenturyLink Inc.

25 note. "Language in the merger documents led us to believe Carter may post the close of the merger." Last year, T-Mobile announced a $ 26 billion deal to buy Sprint. The combined company would be called T-Mobile and would be run by T-Mobile CEO John Legere. It is the third time in recent years that the two rivals have attempted the combination.

In 2017, Sprint and T-Mobile entered merger negotiations but walked away after the companies failed to agree on who would control the combined company, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal at the time. SoftBank Group controls 83% or Sprint. Germany's

Deutsche Telekom AG

owns 62% of T-Mobile

If the merger is successful, the resulting company would create a wireless carrier that could challenge

Verizon Communications Inc.,

which reported about 118 million wireless customers at the end of 2018.

Carter's base salary to $ 950,000, including other changes to his compensation. Mr. Carter has been CFO since April 2013. Previously, he was CFO of MetroPCS Communications Inc. beginning on March 2005 until it was acquired by T-Mobile US in 2013.

T-Mobile disclosed details of the contract after the close of regular trading on the